Comments on: Something to anger atheists

By: pnelnik

pnelnik — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:26:36 +0000

Apologies I had missed your name.

Well, I think we agree the article was slightly offensive to atheists and very badly researched. It would seem to me that in spite of Mary’s article, The Irish Independent is more pro-atheism than theism. Their colomish Ian O’Doherty frequently has athist rants, on the other hand explicitly pro-christian opinion pieces are rather rare. Similarly with the letters they publish. Most that I’ve seen on religious topics are from non-believers. Last week had the following line, which I think summed things up nicely:

religion is, and always was, a nonsensical fraud

I thought that the following letter was amusing:
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/blasphemy-law-a-distraction-1734692.html

By: soulbiscuit

soulbiscuit — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:50:16 +0000

Correction accepted on the location of the newspaper. Perhaps I saw the name “Belfast” in the article and wrote too hastily.

On anonymity, my name is Christopher Petroni. It says so right on the front page of this blog, and always has.

By: pnelnik

pnelnik — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:02:44 +0000

It is interesting that the Irish Independent has now removed Mary Kenny’s name from the top of the article see: http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/atheist-bus-more-like-a-bandwagon–on-highway-to-hell-1550742.html

I wonder why? In the end perhaps she was embarrassed by it and so sought anonimity. Speaking of which why does the author of this piece hide behind the moniker soulbiscuit. Is he too ashamed to use his real name?

And I wonder is he trying to be ironic when he called the Irish Independent a Northern Ireland news paper and then criticised Mary for being sloppy.

By: linkthewindow

linkthewindow — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:59:27 +0000

Yeah, I read this on PZ Myers’ blog a few days ago (I can never spell the name .) It saddens me that people like this still exist, and if we can find the in Britain, imagine what we would get in the United States.

And, yeah Lottie. As I go to a Christian school (it’s a very long story, but short answer, I’m a atheist leaning agnostic, I’ll post about it later,) I can relate.

By: Maria

Maria — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:05:43 +0000

Great piece and I totally agree with conclusion. Mary Kenny has always been and always will be a stupid cow as her long history of ill-informed neurotic rants posing as journalism demonstrates.

Nice post from Lottie too.

By: Lottie

Lottie — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:31:00 +0000

Miserable blighters? Deeply unpleasant and caustically intolerant? Do you think she missed the irony or just hoped we would?

My son made an interesting observation a couple of days ago. As you probably already know, we live in Texas and my son attends middle school here, so there’s no shortage of Christians to observe. My son said to me, “Mom, have you ever noticed that a lot of Christians seem to be tense, angry and afraid?”

I told him that I had notice that and asked what he thought about it. He said that it makes him think that even though they claim to have a monopoly on peace, love and happiness, they really don’t; that they’re just kidding themselves. He further observed the irony of the Christian notion that we should want to be like them. He basically said, “Thanks, but no thanks.”

I’ll second that.